If such a payment occurs through the court it would dwarf the current record of under £200m handed over by the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky to his ex-wife Galina. A trial due to last two weeks to decide the Hohn split will begin by the end of this month. 

Whole life making money

A pre-hearing this week has looked at the valuation of companies he has shares in and works for. Martin Pointer QC for Jamie Cooper-Hohn, Sir Chris’s ex-wife, said: ‘He has spent his whole life making money; he has generated $5.7bn. It’s not in his character to simply walk away.’ Source: Financial Times